The Medical Approach to Peace
We study the state the way medicine studies the body: find the institution that is failing, trace the cause, and prescribe the law that heals it.
Case file
Patient: the state
Symptoms
Diagnosis
Dysfunctional institutions. The illness is authoritarianism.
Prescription
Just law, starting with a republican constitution.
The theory in brief
Research
op-eds
Peace requires more than elections—and governments must be audited like nonprofits. At its core, state is a nonprofit organization—a legal trust created to deliver public goods. Like all…
What we do
We monitor, diagnose and certify the health of state institutions, and we teach citizens what healthy institutions look like.
Government is not a trade which any man or body of men has a right to set up and exercise for his own emolument, but is altogether a trust, in right of those by whom that trust is delegated, and by whom it is always resumeable.
Thomas Paine, Rights of Man
Founder
A political and constitutional thinker, he began his career in Pakistan as a law lecturer and practitioner. The gap he saw there between political theory and how states actually behave followed him to graduate study in political science in the United States, and led him to the Medical Approach to Peace.
New research, op-eds and policy memos from the State Health Institute, sent when they are published.
